In that 5 years your industry would have left you behind :( unfortunately. Unless you do the type of job that allows this style of living but afaik, it's not tech.
I don't know. I just had a break for approx 3 years with very limited access to the internet. Absolutely nothing has changed. AI is now useful, but it doesn't operate differently than before.
This is llm hallucination too? Old ideas and goes back to a system that was in place in the 1800’s. It didn’t go well. Who are these people that peddle this every 20-30 years or so? Opportunist.
I found a different benefit to micro services — AI understands them and context matters. Monolithic app confuse ai where micro services enables them to be far more effective.
It's an interesting question how AI influences this. If it scales up the scope of what an individual engineer can do, and if the primary driver of microservice scope is Conway's law, then in theory microservices should get "fatter".
However I go the other way than you: I have found AI needs as much context as possible and that means it understands monoliths (or fatter architectures) better. At least, the agentic style approach where it has access to the whole git tree / source repository. I find things break down a lot when changes are needed across source repositories.
The visual is really nice. I can appreciate this tool, but once it’s in my database it’s for the human to manage and update. Do I go back to using this tool? How can this help? I don’t want any tool to read data like mcp can. Read table names, sure.
We tried different services like these, they quickly become unappetizing. You end up forcing yourself to microwave a box vs. order something fresh cooked.
I guess I’m looking for some decent food that isn’t owned by the tobacco industry. Having variety of meals that are cooked by chefs with good ingredients.
